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ATL Film 365’s Monthly Meetings are back with “Eat, Drink and B-Indie”!

Join us the 3rd Tuesday of every month from 7:30pm - 9:30pm at Manuel’s Tavern for networking, panel discussions, guest speakers, and new equipment demos over a cash bar.

Meet Producer / Director / Editor Tom Roche. Tom edited the powerful new documentary "The Big Uneasy" from Humorist Harry Shearer, exposing the past and current flaws in New Orleans' hurricane protection. Tom also won the 2010 Atlanta Film Festival Audience Award for his work as Producer, Director and Editor on "Alley Pat: The Music is Recorded". The film documents James Patrick, AKA Alley Pat, one of Atlanta's greatest folk figures, and his brilliant career on radio.

Tom Roche is a long time editor, from the earliest REM music videos to NORAH JONES LIVE IN NEW ORLEANS and the SPINAL TAP UNWIGGED AND UNPLUGGED concert DVD. He has also edited over 50 episodes of SPACE GHOST COAST TO COAST.

Atlanta Film Festival 365 Workshop
Creating a Film Resume - How to Get a Job
Saturday, September 18 (3 Sessons)

$30 for ATL Film 365 Members/$40 for Non-Members

Wonder why your resume keeps getting overlooked? Learn how to create a proper film resume, whether you have experience or not. Learn how to translate your experience into related film experience. Learn where to gain experience, to build your resume, trade favors and network. See if you have what it takes to get a job in the film business.

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Atlanta Film Festival 365 Workshop
Working as a Production Assistant
Sunday, September 12, 2-5 PM

$50 for ATL Film 365 Members/$40 for Non-Members

Looking to break into the film business and build a career? The Production Assistant or PA is the entry level position that can teach you the business from the ground up. Set and Office PAs require hard working, skilled, team players willing to do what it takes to keep a production running.
This introductory workshop is a must take for anyone interested in becoming a Production Assistant, and one of the ways to gain entry into the acclaimed invitation only GPP - ATL Film 365 PA Academy - the two day workshop for production assistants looking for intensive, elite training by local professionals who do the hiring.

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Atlanta Film Festival 365 Sponsored
Jump Start Your Acting Career: Tips, Tools and Resources for Beginner Actors
Sunday, September 11, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

$200/$149 for ATL Film 365 Members

You want to be an actor, but you have no idea where to start. Or, you’ve had some great film/tv experience already, maybe a few extra roles, but you need specific
direction as to how proceed productively. With so many resources out there, how do you determine what’s best for you?

You want to be an actor, but you have no clue how to get your foot in the door. You wonder, “How do I get an agent? What do I put on my resume since I haven’t done anything yet? Where can I get a good headshot?” And the list goes on…

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Winter's Bone presents a kind of quest through the criminal underworld, like a classic hard-boiled detective story, but one grounded in a documentary-style approach to life in this corner of America.

A SINGLE MAN

George (Colin Firth) is a college professor who recently lost his lover, Jim, in a car accident. Terribly grief-stricken, George plans to commit suicide. As he goes about his daily routine and puts his affairs in order, his encounters with colleagues, students and an old friend (Julianne Moore) lead him to make a final decision as to whether life is worth living without Jim.





Community News

Dragon*Con Independent Film Festival
September 3-6 

What is the Dragon*Con Independent Film Festival? It is a combination of short and feature independent film screenings, panels, celebrity guests, discussions, concerts, contests, and seminars. All that combined with the 35,000+ Dragon*Con attendees creates an extraordinary film event.

filmfest.dragoncon.org/

Atlanta Screenwriters Group
First and Third Thursdays of Each Month

The mission of The Atlanta Screenwriters Group is to help local screenwriters develop their ideas, give support, swap industry stories and give constructive feedback for their work. We are also interested in supporting and developing a relationship with local area filmmakers and provide a forum for them to talk about their projects and help find support for them.

atlscript.org



Screening: ENTER THE DRAGON
Tuesday, September 7, 8 and 10

The last film completed by Bruce Lee before his untimely death, Enter the Dragon was his entrée into Hollywood. The American-Hong Kong coproduction, shot in Asia by American director Robert Clouse, stars Lee as a British agent sent to infiltrate the criminal empire of bloodthirsty Asian crime lord Han (Shih Kien) through his annual international martial arts tournament. Lee spends his days taking on tournament combatants and nights breaking into the heavily guarded underground fortress, kicking the living tar out of anyone who stands in his way. The mix of kung fu fighting (choreographed by Lee himself) and James Bond intrigue (the plot has more than a passing resemblance to Dr. No) is pulpy by any standard, but the generous budget and talented cast of world-class martial artists puts this film in a category well above Lee's earlier Hong Kong productions.

plazaatlanta.com
 

Bluecat Screenwriting Workshop
Sunday, September 12, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Gordy Hoffman, the Sundance award-winning writer/director (Love Liza, A Coat of Snow) and founder of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, comes to Atlanta to lead a screenwriting workshop on Sunday, September 12th, from 9:00a.m.-6:00p.m. Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival for LOVE LIZA, Gordy Hoffman made his feature directorial debut with his script, A COAT OF SNOW, which world premiered in 2005 at the Locarno International Film Festival. The movie would go on to win the Domani Vision Award at VisionFest, held at the Tribeca Cinemas. He has taught screenwriting at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the University of Kansas, as well as led workshops all over North America, Poland and the UK. He recently served as a panelist for the 2010 IFP Script to Screen Conference in New York City and the George Eastman House Film Festival, as well as a judge for the 2010 McKnight Screenwriting Fellowships in Minnesota. He's attached to direct CORDELIA, written by Melissa Brandt, a love story inspired by KING LEAR, and he's currently writing a comedy about Christmas shopping. Gordy Hoffman founded the BlueCat Screenplay Competition in 1998 and remains its sole judge.

ATL Film 365 Members Save $50 on Full Script Registration
Use code ALTFUL to register for $175 for the Full Script Registration (regularly $225)
Use code ALTTEN to register for $75 for the First Ten Pages Registration (regularly $95)

bluecatscreenplay.com/workshop/
 

The most ambitious project to date by Atlanta's Festival League, Independent Film Month runs the entire month of August 2010 and presents over 300 films at a series of film festivals and related events designed to unify Atlanta's top film organizations, independent filmmakers and film fans from across the world. IFM events include: Atlanta Shortsfest, Atlanta Horror Film Festival, The Best of CinErotic Film Festival, the Film Series at the Center for Puppetry Arts, the Peachtree Village International Film Festival, DocuFest Atlanta, Animation Attack!, and Atlanta Underground Film Festival.

independentfilmmonth.com

Atlanta Underground Film Festival
Friday, August 27 - Sunday August 29

Join AUFF for an incredible selection of independent shorts and features from across the globe. Venues include The Goat Farm Art Space, Eyedrum and The Highland Inn Ballroom lounge.

auff.org


Screening: FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS (Indie Memphis 2009)
Friday, September 3
The Plaza

Drew (Mr. Deejae), an aspiring producer, is fresh out of college with a degree in Music, but only a dead-end general labor job to show for it. His cousin Lance (Anwar Jamison), a hustler-type from Drew's hometown, arranges the opportunity that Drew has been seeking: an all-access, VIP night with some of the biggest movers and shakers in the music industry. However, there are two things standing in the way of Drew's dream evening: his company's attendance policy, which won't allow him to miss work, and his overbearing, insensitive, military-minded supervisor, Sarge (David Caffey), who is determined to uphold that policy. After telling his boss that he has to attend a funeral to avoid work, Drew finds himself caught up in a hilarious adventure that brings him closer to both love and death!


Weekly Film Quote

Wesley: We have to be back on the road the day after the revival. Otherwise your career is going to be deader than C+C Music Factory.
David Taylor: Who?
Wesley: My point exactly.

 THE GOSPEL (2005)

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